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download plug-in
If you don't care about the software and just want to load a plug-in to view HP-GL/2 files,
then just download this
HP-GL/2 plug in
and place it in the Netscape\program\Plugins folder wherever you
have installed Netscape. Restart the browser and you should be able to see the cool
HP-GL/2 tiger. This tiger is of course a standard Adobe Illustrator drawing that is used
to show Postscript off and the SVG people use it to show some of their implementations as well. The version here is a
bit wrong cause it was hand edited with errors into HP-GL/2, and so some mistakes were made, but it serves to illustrate
the point. By the way, the HP-GL/2 version is smaller than SVG, and if the HP-GL/2 command PE was implemented and used,
it would be smaller again. So what, you say? Well, it just shows that for simple vector stuff, HP-GL/2 is just as
useful as many other excessively complicated languages.
Anyway, out of the goodness of our hearts, we've chucked the source into the public domain without that restrictive GNU
licence. We only ask that if you add to or fix bugs then please send the changes back to us by mailing
hpgl2@ishtek.com if you wish. No one is under obligation to do so, but we just ask
that as a small favour for giving you this stuff in the first place. So anyway, the
source code is here it contains a few
directories which normally get unpacked into the Netscape plug-in SDK main directory.
So, to unpack, first grab the Netscape SDK and put it on your disk somewhere. Then unpack the gl2-0_1.zip file inside
the top level. You will end up with a directory called 'gl-plugin'. In there, there are two Microsoft Visual Studio 6
workspaces in the directory 'Viewer' and 'Winproject'. The workspace in 'Winproject' builds the Netscape plug-in. The
workspace in 'Viewer' builds a Windows program which can be used stand-alone to view HP-GL/2 files (and us useful when
debugging).
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